Leonard Carey

Leonard Carey

Born: February 25, 1887
Died: September 11, 1977
in London, England, UK
Leonard Carey (25 February 1887 – 11 September 1977) was an English character actor who very often played butlers in Hollywood films of the 1930s, 1940s and 1950s. He was also active in television during the 1950s. He is perhaps best known for his role as the beach hermit, Ben, in Alfred Hitchcock's Rebecca (1940).

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While the City Sleeps
Title: While the City Sleeps
Character: Walter's Butler (uncredited)
Released: April 19, 1956
Type: Movie
Newspaper men compete against each other to find a serial killer dubbed "The Lipstick Killer".
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Title: Telephone Time
Released: April 8, 1956
Type: TV
Telephone Time is an American anthology drama series that aired on CBS in 1956, and on ABC from 1957 to 1958. The series features plays by John Nesbitt who hosted the first season. Frank C. Baxter hosted the 1957 and 1958 seasons. The program was directed by Arthur Hiller.
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The King's Thief
Title: The King's Thief
Character: Servant (uncredited)
Released: August 5, 1955
Type: Movie
An ex-soldier turned highwayman uncovers a plot to take control of England from King Charles II.
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Title: The Millionaire
Character: Chester - Butler
Released: January 19, 1955
Type: TV
An anthology series that explored the ways sudden and unexpected wealth changed life for better or for worse. It told the stories of people who were given one million dollars from a benefactor who insisted they never know him, with one exception.
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Title: Climax!
Released: October 7, 1954
Type: TV
Climax! is an American anthology series that aired on CBS from 1954 to 1958. The series was hosted by William Lundigan and later co-hosted by Mary Costa. It was one of the few CBS programs of that era to be broadcast in color. Many of the episodes were performed and broadcast live.
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Thunder in the East
Title: Thunder in the East
Character: Dr. Paling
Released: December 4, 1952
Type: Movie
During India's first years of independence from Britain, Steve Gibbs lands his armaments loaded plane in Ghandahar province hoping to get rich. Pacifist Prime Minister Singh hopes to reach an agreement with guerilla leader Khan, the maharajah is a fool, and the British residents are living in the past. Steve's love interest is Joan Willoughby, the blind daughter of a parson.
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The Snows of Kilimanjaro
Title: The Snows of Kilimanjaro
Character: Dr. Edmund Simmons
Released: October 8, 1952
Type: Movie
Writer Harry Street reflects on his life as he lies dying from an infection while on safari in the shadow of Mount Kilimanjaro.
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Title: Adventures of Superman
Released: September 19, 1952
Type: TV
Announcer: "The Adventures of Superman. Faster than a speeding bullet! More powerful than a locomotive! Able to leap tall buildings at a single bound!" Voices: "Look up in the sky! It's a bird! It's a plane! It's Superman!" Announcer: "Yes, it's Superman, strange visitor from another planet who came to Earth with powers and abilities far beyond those of mortal men. Superman, who can change the course of mighty rivers, bend steel in his bare hands; and who, disguised as Clark Kent, mild-mannered reporter for a great metropolitan newspaper, fights a never ending battle for truth, justice, and the American way."
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The Lady and the Bandit
Title: The Lady and the Bandit
Character: Jailer
Released: August 13, 1951
Type: Movie
Highwayman Dick Turpin rides 200 miles to save his wife from the gallows in 18th-century England.
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Kind Lady
Title: Kind Lady
Character: Postman
Released: June 20, 1951
Type: Movie
Mary Herries has a passion for art and fine furniture. Even though she is getting on in years, she enjoys being around these priceless articles. One day she meets a strange young painter named Elcott, who uses his painting skill to enter into her life. Little does she expect that his only interest in Mary is to covet everything she has.
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Slightly French
Title: Slightly French
Character: Wilson (uncredited)
Released: February 2, 1949
Type: Movie
A film director, in bad standing with his studio, tries to turn a local carnival dancer into a "French" movie star and pass her off as his big new discovery.
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The Exile
Title: The Exile
Character: Cavalier (uncredited)
Released: October 17, 1947
Type: Movie
In 17th-century England, Charles II, the rightful heir to the kingdom, is driven from his country by militants working for rogue leader Oliver Cromwell. Charles ends up in the Netherlands, where he falls for local beauty Katie and spends his days happily in the quiet countryside. Unfortunately, Cromwell's associate Col. Ingram and his men track Charles down, and the would-be monarch must resort to swashbuckling his way to freedom.
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Unconquered
Title: Unconquered
Character: London Astronomer Jeremiah Dixon
Released: October 10, 1947
Type: Movie
England, 1763. After being convicted of a crime, the young and beautiful Abigail Hale agrees, to escape the gallows, to serve fourteen years as a slave in the colony of Virginia, whose inhabitants begin to hear and fear the sinister song of the threatening drums of war that resound in the wild Ohio valley.
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Moss Rose
Title: Moss Rose
Character: Coroner (uncredited)
Released: May 30, 1947
Type: Movie
When a music-hall dancer is murdered, a moss rose marks the page of a Bible next to her body. Luckily, another chorus girl saw a gentleman leaving the lodgings. She approaches him directly, saying she'll go to the police if he doesn't meet her demands, but he brushes her off contemptuously. When he learns she's dead serious, he tries to buy her off with a thick wad of pound notes. But it's not money she's after; all she wants is two weeks at his country estate, living the life of a lady.
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Tomorrow Is Forever
Title: Tomorrow Is Forever
Character: Hamilton Employee
Released: February 20, 1946
Type: Movie
In 1918, Elizabeth MacDonald learns that her husband, John Andrew, has been killed in the war. Elizabeth bears John's son and eventually marries her kindly boss. Unknown to her, John has survived but is horribly disfigured and remains in Europe. Years later, on the eve of World War II, Elizabeth refuses to agree to her son's request to enlist and is stunned when an eerily familiar stranger named Kessler arrives from abroad and becomes involved.
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The Invisible Man's Revenge
Title: The Invisible Man's Revenge
Character: The Police Constable (uncredited)
Released: June 9, 1944
Type: Movie
A fugitive, dangerous madman reaches an English village where he confronts his former partner who left him for dead in the jungle after their discovery of a diamond mine. When the former partner also claims to have since lost the mine and all its wealth, which he took all for himself, and though the partmer is still living in a state of luxury , the madman takes up an offer from a crazed scientist to make him invisible, something the scientist has already done with experimental animals, so that he can take revenge.
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Gaslight
Title: Gaslight
Character: Guide (uncredited)
Released: May 4, 1944
Type: Movie
A newlywed fears she's going mad when strange things start happening at the family mansion.
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Heaven Can Wait
Title: Heaven Can Wait
Character: Flogdell (uncredited)
Released: August 5, 1943
Type: Movie
Spoiled playboy Henry van Cleve dies and arrives at the entrance to Hell, a final destination he is sure he deserves after living a life of profligacy. The devil, however, isn't so sure Henry meets Hell's standards. Convinced he is where he belongs, Henry recounts his life's deeds, both good and bad, including an act of indiscretion during his 25-year marriage to his wife, Martha, with the hope that "His Excellency" will arrive at the proper judgment.
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Mrs. Miniver
Title: Mrs. Miniver
Character: Chandler (uncredited)
Released: July 3, 1942
Type: Movie
Middle-class housewife Kay Miniver deals with petty problems. She and her husband Clem watch her Oxford-educated son Vin court Carol Beldon, the charming granddaughter of the local nobility as represented by Lady Beldon. Then the war comes and Vin joins the RAF.
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The Affairs of Martha
Title: The Affairs of Martha
Character: The Butler (uncredited)
Released: June 21, 1942
Type: Movie
Members of a well-to-do small community become worried when it is revealed that one of their maids is writing a telling exposé.
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This Above All
Title: This Above All
Character: Policeman with Rector
Released: May 12, 1942
Type: Movie
In 1940 England, aristocratic Prudence Cathaway alarms her snobbish parents by joining the WAF service branch. She soon meets and falls in love with the brooding Clive Briggs, despite his prejudice against the upper classes, and agrees to spend a week with him at a Dover hotel. When Clive's soldier friend, Monty, arrives to retrieve him, Prudence learns that Clive went AWOL after Dunkirk, and urges him to recall why England must fight the war.
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What's Cookin'?
Title: What's Cookin'?
Character: Butler
Released: February 20, 1942
Type: Movie
J. P. Courtney wants to update the music on the radio program he sponsors, but his wife, Agatha Courtney, is the final authority and addicted to the classics and won't allow him to replace Professor Bistell and his symphonic orchestra. Conspiring with his daughter Sue and her friends, Marvo the Great, the Andrews Sisters, Anne Payne and bandleader Woody Herman, they devise a sabotage plot that gets rid of Professor Bistell, and a new sound is soon heard on the program.
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Son of Fury: The Story of Benjamin Blake
Title: Son of Fury: The Story of Benjamin Blake
Character: Pale Tom (uncredited)
Released: January 29, 1942
Type: Movie
Sir Arthur Blake has inherited title and lands from his brother. He also has his orphaned nephew Benjamin working for him as a bonded servant. While he believes the lad was born out of wedlock and so cannot claim the inheritance, he is taking no chances. Benjamin eventually rebels against his uncle and sets sail to try and make his fortune. This may enable him to return to prove his claim to being the rightful heir to the estate.
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Confirm or Deny
Title: Confirm or Deny
Character: Sidney
Released: December 12, 1941
Type: Movie
Newsman Mitch and teletype operator Jennifer, whose job is to see he doesn't send inappropriate stuff out of the country, dodge bombs during the blitz of London while falling in love.
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Tuxedo Junction
Title: Tuxedo Junction
Character: Jenkins
Released: November 25, 1941
Type: Movie
The Weaver Brothers and Elviry have migrated from their usual hard-scrabble digs in the Ozarks and have taken up truck-farming.
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Suspicion
Title: Suspicion
Character: The McLaidlaw's Butler Burton (uncredited)
Released: November 14, 1941
Type: Movie
Wealthy, sheltered Lina McLaidlaw is swept off her feet by charming ne'er-do-well Johnnie Aysgarth. Though warned that Johnnie is little more than a fortune hunter, Lina marries him anyway and remains loyal to her irresponsible husband as he plows his way from one disreputable business scheme to another. Gradually Lina comes to the conclusion that Johnnie intends to kill her in order to collect her inheritance.
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Moon Over Her Shoulder
Title: Moon Over Her Shoulder
Character: Mate Dusty Rhodes
Released: October 23, 1941
Type: Movie
Marriage counselor advises his bored wife to take up painting through which she meets a hubbie-rival yachtsman.
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Private Nurse
Title: Private Nurse
Character: Smithton - the Butler
Released: August 22, 1941
Type: Movie
In this brief B programmer, a nurse is hired to care for a widower's daughter who is unaware that her father is a gangster and that her mother is actually still alive. The concerned nurse burdens herself with the difficult responsibility of revealing the unfortunate truth.
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Accent on Love
Title: Accent on Love
Character: Flowers
Released: July 11, 1941
Type: Movie
A young man of privilege abandons his thankless job as a company vice-president, walks out on his spoiled wife, and joins the working classes, leading to his romance with a European immigrant.
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West Point Widow
Title: West Point Widow
Character: Simpson
Released: June 20, 1941
Type: Movie
In this romance, a hospital nurse marries a West Point football hero. She soon gets pregnant, but this doesn't stop her from annulling the marriage so as not to interfere with her husband's military career.
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That Hamilton Woman
Title: That Hamilton Woman
Character: Orderly (uncredited)
Released: April 3, 1941
Type: Movie
The story of courtesan and dance-hall girl Emma Hamilton, including her relationships with Sir William Hamilton and Admiral Horatio Nelson and her rise and fall, set during the Napoleonic Wars.
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Nice Girl?
Title: Nice Girl?
Released: February 21, 1941
Type: Movie
Jane is a nice girl and has had her eyes on a young man who seems more interested in his hand-built car than in Jane. She decides to shed her "nice girl" image when an associate of her father comes to town on his way to study Australian Aboriginal tribes.
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A Dispatch from Reuters
Title: A Dispatch from Reuters
Character: Delane's Secretary (uncredited)
Released: October 19, 1940
Type: Movie
German Julius Reuter sends 19th-century news by carrier pigeon and then by wire, founding a news agency.
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Sky Murder
Title: Sky Murder
Character: Sutter - Grand's Butler
Released: September 27, 1940
Type: Movie
This final Carter film is a lot of fun, with Nick (unwillingly, at first) taking on a ring of Fifth Columnists (since this was filmed before the US entered the war, we're not told the villains are Nazis, but it's pretty clear anyway). Of course, the helpful and persistent Bartholomew is at his side--much to Nick's irritation. To further complicate things--and to make them still funnier--Joyce Compton is along for the ride too, as a delightfully brainless "detective" named Christine Cross.
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Hired Wife
Title: Hired Wife
Character: Peterson - Butler
Released: September 13, 1940
Type: Movie
Ad man Stephen Dexter asks his secretary Kendall to marry him as a loophole in order to protect his finances during an important business deal. Once the deal is completed, he asks Kendall for a divorce and is dismayed when she refuses.
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Private Affairs
Title: Private Affairs
Character: Casper the Butler
Released: July 5, 1940
Type: Movie
A girl decides to consult her natural father, whom she's never seen, for advice on her mixed-up love life.
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In Old Missouri
Title: In Old Missouri
Character: Haskins
Released: April 17, 1940
Type: Movie
The Weavers are share-croppers who confront their landlord with their tale of woe only to find he is in money trouble too. He also has a wastrel son and a socialite wife who wants a divorce. He begs the Weavers to trade places with him and fix things up.
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Rebecca
Title: Rebecca
Character: Ben
Released: March 23, 1940
Type: Movie
Story of a young woman who marries a fascinating widower only to find out that she must live in the shadow of his former wife, Rebecca, who died mysteriously several years earlier. The young wife must come to grips with the terrible secret of her handsome, cold husband, Max De Winter. She must also deal with the jealous, obsessed Mrs. Danvers, the housekeeper, who will not accept her as the mistress of the house.
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Raffles
Title: Raffles
Character: Bingham's Secretary
Released: November 11, 1939
Type: Movie
Man about town and First Class cricketer A.J. Raffles keeps himself solvent with daring robberies. Meeting Gwen from his schooldays and falling in love all over again, he spends the weekend with her parents, Lord and Lady Melrose. A necklace presents an irresistible temptation, but also in attendance is Scotland Yard's finest, finally on the trail.
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Five Little Peppers And How They Grew
Title: Five Little Peppers And How They Grew
Character: Martin
Released: August 22, 1939
Type: Movie
The first of four films in the "Five Little Peppers" series, based on Margaret Sinclair's popular book, about a widowed mother and her five children. In this one the family inherits co-ownership in a copper mine.
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Stronger Than Desire
Title: Stronger Than Desire
Character: Albert - Flagg's Butler (uncredited)
Released: June 30, 1939
Type: Movie
An attorney handling a murder case in unaware his own wife played a crucial role in the killing.
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The Zero Hour
Title: The Zero Hour
Character: Butler
Released: May 26, 1939
Type: Movie
A celebrated Broadway actress and a wealthy widowed businessman are brought together through their shared affection for a young orphan.
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The Hound of the Baskervilles
Title: The Hound of the Baskervilles
Character: Hugo's Servant (uncredited)
Released: March 24, 1939
Type: Movie
On his uncle's death Sir Henry Baskerville returns from Canada to take charge of his ancestral hall on the desolate moors of Devonshire, and finds that Sherlock Holmes is there to investigate the local belief that his uncle was killed by a monster hound that has roamed the moors since 1650, and is likely to strike again at Sir Henry.
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Beauty for the Asking
Title: Beauty for the Asking
Character: Peters (uncredited)
Released: February 24, 1939
Type: Movie
Denny breaks up with his fiancée Jean to marries wealthy Flora. When Jean is fired from her job she decides to market the face cream she invented. After sending it to twelve rich woman, only Flora decides to invest in the business. As Denny has no job, the girls give him an office at the factory. The business takes off, but Jean finds that she is still in love with Denny and Denny seems to forget he is married to Flora.
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Fast and Loose
Title: Fast and Loose
Character: Craddock
Released: February 17, 1939
Type: Movie
The Sloanes tie murder to the theft of a Shakespeare manuscript.
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The Lone Wolf Spy Hunt
Title: The Lone Wolf Spy Hunt
Character: Jameson
Released: January 27, 1939
Type: Movie
Spies force former jewel thief Michael Lanyard to steal defense secrets in Washington.
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Bulldog Drummond in Africa
Title: Bulldog Drummond in Africa
Character: Butler Phillips
Released: August 5, 1938
Type: Movie
Drummond has to leave for Morocco on his wedding day with his fiancee and trusted friends to rescue his friend Nielsen who is kidnapped by an international criminal.
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Blond Cheat
Title: Blond Cheat
Character: Meggs (uncredited)
Released: June 17, 1938
Type: Movie
Socially prominent Michael Ashburn, chief assistant for a London loan broker makes a large loan during a closing time to a man for a pair of earrings. He is unaware that the collateral can not be removed from the ears in which they reside, so then Julie becomes part of the collateral.
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Hold That Kiss
Title: Hold That Kiss
Character: Gibley
Released: May 13, 1938
Type: Movie
Two young people meet at a wedding and begin dating, each thinking the other is extremely wealthy. Comedy.
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Sally, Irene and Mary
Title: Sally, Irene and Mary
Character: Zorka's Butler
Released: March 4, 1938
Type: Movie
Manicurists Sally, Irene and Mary hope to be Broadway entertainers. When Mary inherits an old ferry boat, they turn it into a successful supper club.
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Hitting a New High
Title: Hitting a New High
Character: Jervons
Released: December 24, 1937
Type: Movie
A Paris cabaret singer dreams of becoming a Metropolitan Opera singer. A press agent arranges her Manhattan debut by way of Africa.
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Beg, Borrow or Steal
Title: Beg, Borrow or Steal
Character: James, Lord Braemer's Butler (uncredited)
Released: December 3, 1937
Type: Movie
We find con-man Ingraham Steward living by his wits by steering wealthy Paris visitors to sellers of fake paintings and other assorted dodges. He and his wife, Agatha, have been separated for 15 years, but he promises to give their daughter, Joyce, a lavish wedding at his "château" in France. The fact that he doesn't have a château in France is just a minor trifle. He induces the caretaker, Bill Cherau, of a large country estate to allow it to be used for the wedding. The wedding party arrives and Bill falls madly in love with Joyce and she with him, but a gal has gotta do what a gal has gotta do, and her intended marriage to stuffed-shirt Horace Miller stays on the books. But Steward has a change of heart and he tells one and all that he and his friends, Von Gersdorff, Lefevre, Iznamof, Clifton Summitt and Sasch, are all frauds and crooks. Horace and his family stalk out, which is just fine with Joyce as her true love, the caretaker, is waiting on the grounds.
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Angel
Title: Angel
Released: October 29, 1937
Type: Movie
A woman and her husband take separate vacations, and she falls in love with another man.
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My Dear Miss Aldrich
Title: My Dear Miss Aldrich
Character: William - Butler (uncredited)
Released: September 17, 1937
Type: Movie
A young woman inherits a newspaper whose editor refuses to hire lady reporters.
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The Emperor's Candlesticks
Title: The Emperor's Candlesticks
Character: Valet to Wolensky (uncredited)
Released: July 2, 1937
Type: Movie
Spies on opposite sides fall in love in pre-revolutionary Russia.
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Night of Mystery
Title: Night of Mystery
Character: Lister
Released: May 21, 1937
Type: Movie
One of a series of movies based on the character Philo Vance
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The Last of Mrs. Cheyney
Title: The Last of Mrs. Cheyney
Character: Ames
Released: February 19, 1937
Type: Movie
A chic jewel thief in England falls in love with one of her marks.
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A Woman Rebels
Title: A Woman Rebels
Character: Lord Gaythorne's Butler (uncredited)
Released: November 6, 1936
Type: Movie
A Victorian-era woman struggles to break free of the moral codes established by society and enforced by her father.
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Bunker Bean
Title: Bunker Bean
Character: Kent's Butler
Released: June 26, 1936
Type: Movie
A shy office worker becomes a hero when a fortune teller calls him another Napoleon.
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Little Miss Nobody
Title: Little Miss Nobody
Character: Butler
Released: June 5, 1936
Type: Movie
A runaway orphan is befriended by a kind-hearted pet store owner with a criminal past.
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Trouble for Two
Title: Trouble for Two
Character: Valet (Uncredited)
Released: May 29, 1936
Type: Movie
A decadent prince unhappy over an impending arranged marriage, looking for a good time in London discovers the existence of a secret society called The Suicide Club, and so he seeks to become a member.
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Small Town Girl
Title: Small Town Girl
Character: Concierge (uncredited)
Released: April 10, 1936
Type: Movie
Kay is a girl living in a small rural town whose life is just too dull and repetitious to bear. One night, she meets young, handsome, and rich Bob Dakin, who asks her for directions while drunk and then proceeds to take her out on a night on the town. Kay likes the stranger, and when the drunken Bob decides that they should get married, Kay hesitates little before consenting. The morning after the affair, Bob, once sober, regrets his mistake. His strict and upright parents, however, insist that the young couple pretend marriage for 6 months before divorcing, in order to avoid bad publicity. Bob resents Kay for standing in the way of him and his fiancée, Priscilla, but Kay still hopes that he'd have a change of heart.
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Wife vs. Secretary
Title: Wife vs. Secretary
Character: Taggart (uncredited)
Released: February 28, 1936
Type: Movie
Linda, the wife of a publishing executive, suspects that her husband Van’s relationship with his attractive secretary Whitey is more than professional.
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Strike Me Pink
Title: Strike Me Pink
Character: Maitre d' at Club Lido (uncredited)
Released: January 24, 1936
Type: Movie
Meek Eddie Pink becomes manager of an amusement park beset by mobsters.
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Here's to Romance
Title: Here's to Romance
Character: Buttler
Released: October 4, 1935
Type: Movie
Kathleen Gerard, a high society wife fed up with her husband's artistic "protegées", decides to take one of her own in Nino, a promising tenor, patronizing him to study in Paris. He and her girlfriend are perfectly happy until the Gerards pay a visit and Mrs. Gerard starts to show too much interest in him.
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Ginger
Title: Ginger
Character: Gwynne (uncredited)
Released: July 4, 1935
Type: Movie
Ginger, an orphan, is living with her foster-uncle, Rexford Whittington, a broken-down Shakesperian actor. Although denied the love of a mother and father, Ginger looks after her uncle, gives him lectures, loves him, defends him and keeps house for him. But, through a meddling do-gooder, she is placed in the home of the Parkers, and clashes immediately with the pampered young son, Hamilton.
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Hold 'Em Yale
Title: Hold 'Em Yale
Character: Langdonn
Released: April 27, 1935
Type: Movie
A pretty young socialite falls for a charming but shady hustler, who abandons her when he finds that she has been disowned by her wealthy father. Three of the hustler's partners, who have also been left high and dry by heir former associate, come up with a plan to get her to the annual Yale-Harvard football game to reunite with her former sweetheart, an honest but nerdy bookworm.
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Our Little Girl
Title: Our Little Girl
Character: Brent's Butler
Released: January 1, 1935
Type: Movie
Don Middleton is so caught up with his work he neglects his wife Elsa. Lonely Elsa begins to spend more time with Don's best friend and they become attracted to one another. Don and Elsa decide to get a divorce, unaware of the effect their problems are having on their daughter Molly. When Elsa announces plans to remarry, Molly runs away from home.
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The Little Minister
Title: The Little Minister
Character: Hendry Munn
Released: December 28, 1934
Type: Movie
The stoic, proper Rev. Gavin Dishart, newly assigned to a church in the small Scottish village of Thrums, finds himself unexpectedly falling for one of his parishioners, the hot-blooded Gypsy girl Babbie. A village-wide scandal soon erupts over the minister's relationship with this feisty, passionate young woman, who holds a secret about the village's nobleman, Lord Milford Rintoul, and his role in an increasingly fractious labor dispute.
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I Sell Anything
Title: I Sell Anything
Character: Pertwee - Millicent's Chauffeur
Released: October 20, 1934
Type: Movie
Auctioneer Spot Cash Cutler is planning the scam of a lifetime, but will he get burned?
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The Age of Innocence
Title: The Age of Innocence
Character: The Butler
Released: September 14, 1934
Type: Movie
An engaged attorney and a divorcee fall for each other in 1870s Manhattan.
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His Greatest Gamble
Title: His Greatest Gamble
Character: Alfred
Released: August 10, 1934
Type: Movie
A man escapes from jail in France to free his daughter from her mother's hold.
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Smarty
Title: Smarty
Character: Tilford - Tony's Butler
Released: May 19, 1934
Type: Movie
Vicki Wallace takes great pleasure in teasing her husband Tony who takes no pleasure at all in being teased and it isn't long before he ups and clips her on the chin. Vicki's friend and attorney Vernon Thorpe secures a divorce for her, and Vicki and Vernon are soon married. Vicki's yen for wearing revealing clothes and a penchant for inviting ex-husband to dinner soon provokes the easily-provoked Vernon into belting one on her himself. She goes to Tony's apartment, where Tony is entertaining Bonnie, who is not all that entertained by the presence of Vicki, especially after Vicki shows every intent of moving in and staying.
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Double Door
Title: Double Door
Character: William
Released: May 4, 1934
Type: Movie
A domineering money-bags' suppressed incestuous urges go into overdrive when her half-brother brings a new bride home to the family’s gloomy Fifth Avenue mansion. The title refers to a secret soundproofed chamber that the villainess uses to entrap her enemies.
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Gambling Lady
Title: Gambling Lady
Character: Butler at Gambling Club (uncredited)
Released: March 8, 1934
Type: Movie
A businesslike syndicate runs all the gambling joints in town; least profitable is honest Mike Lee's. Under pressure to allow cheating, Mike "walks out," leaving tough-minded daughter Lady Lee to earn a living the only way she knows. She soon becomes a success gambling among the rich, but, falling out with the syndicate, she considers the marriage proposal of blueblood Garry Madison. Can such a match work despite snobbery and old associations?
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The Worst Woman in Paris?
Title: The Worst Woman in Paris?
Character: Chumley - the Butler
Released: December 3, 1933
Type: Movie
Tired of being tired and scandalized in gossip columns, she leaves Menjou for a trip to the US. Barely surviving a Midwest train wreck, she becomes a local hero after injuring herself while saving a baby's life. While recovering at the home of the headmaster of a boy's school and his family, her veneer of oversophistications melts away and she finds herself fancying the small town life.
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Bombshell
Title: Bombshell
Character: Winters
Released: October 13, 1933
Type: Movie
A glamorous film star rebels against the studio, her pushy press agent and a family of hangers-on.
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The Avenger
Title: The Avenger
Character: Talbot
Released: August 10, 1933
Type: Movie
A disgraced former District Attorney plots his revenge on the members of a criminal gang who had him framed and sent to prison.
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Ann Carver's Profession
Title: Ann Carver's Profession
Character: Melville
Released: June 9, 1933
Type: Movie
Newlyweds experience marital problems when the wife's highly successful job as an attorney overshadows her husband's stagnant career.
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Infernal Machine
Title: Infernal Machine
Character: Hans
Released: April 8, 1933
Type: Movie
This pre-Code comedy-thriller centers on Robert Holden, a broke and discouraged veteran, who meets fellow American Elinor Green at a cafe in Paris. After their first encounter, Holden's attempt to return Green's thought-to-be stolen purse ends up rendering him a stowaway on board a ship bound for America. Also aboard is a collection of characters, including Green's banker fiancé, a famed scientist, and an opera singer. Romance begins to blossom between Holden and Green, just as a radiogram claims that an “infernal machine,” or bomb, is aboard the ship. Quickly each passenger accuses the others of planting the bomb until eventually Holden, jealous of Green's attention to her undeserving fiancé, falsely admits to being the culprit. In his role as assumed perpetrator, Holden tests the group further.
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King of the Jungle
Title: King of the Jungle
Character: Clerk at Hunting License Bureau (uncredited)
Released: March 10, 1933
Type: Movie
A white youth raised in the jungle by animals is captured by a safari and brought back to civilization as an attraction in a circus.
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A Lady's Profession
Title: A Lady's Profession
Character: Albert - Garfield's Butler (uncredited)
Released: March 3, 1933
Type: Movie
A couple of down-and-out British aristocrats buy an American roadhouse.
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Call Her Savage
Title: Call Her Savage
Character: Jackson, Randall's Butler (Uncredited)
Released: November 24, 1932
Type: Movie
A high-spirited, short-tempered, young woman hates her father and loves to rebel against him. She marries a man whom her father hates but her marriage fails and she learns the errors of her ways.
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The Crash
Title: The Crash
Character: Fair's Butler
Released: October 9, 1932
Type: Movie
Linda Gault is a luxury loving wife who casually seduces other men while getting investment tips from one of her lovers.
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Merrily We Go to Hell
Title: Merrily We Go to Hell
Character: Prentice's Butler (uncredited)
Released: June 10, 1932
Type: Movie
A drunken newspaperman, Jerry Corbett, is rescued from his alcoholic haze by an heiress, Joan Prentice, whose love sobers him up and encourages him to write a play, but he lapses back into dipsomania.
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Shanghai Express
Title: Shanghai Express
Character: Carey (uncredited)
Released: February 12, 1932
Type: Movie
A beautiful temptress re-kindles an old romance while trying to escape her past during a tension-packed train journey.
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This Reckless Age
Title: This Reckless Age
Character: Braithwaite (uncredited)
Released: January 9, 1932
Type: Movie
Donald Ingals and his wife Eunice are conventional and loving parents who are shocked when their son Bradley comes home from college with ideas that they consider to be outrageous. His parents would like him to get involved with Mary Burke, a prim and proper young lady. More complications ensue because Bradley's sister Lois is attracted to the flapper lifestyle, but she isn't sure whether she can handle its emotional demands.
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Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
Title: Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
Character: Briggs, Lanyon's Butler (uncredited)
Released: December 24, 1931
Type: Movie
Dr. Henry Jekyll believes that there are two distinct sides to men - a good and an evil side. He believes that by separating the two, man can become liberated. He succeeds in his experiments with chemicals to accomplish this and transforms into Hyde to commit horrendous crimes. When he discontinues use of the drug, it is already too late.
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Working Girls
Title: Working Girls
Character: Boyd's Butler
Released: December 12, 1931
Type: Movie
Two sisters from Indiana, the wide-eyed and innocent Mae Thorpe, and her more streetwise sister June, move into the Rolf House for Homeless Girls in New York. With June's help, Mae obtains a job as a stenographer for the scientist Joseph von Schraeder, while June gets work as a telegraph operator at Western Union.
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Nice Women
Title: Nice Women
Character: Connors, Butler
Released: November 28, 1931
Type: Movie
A mother tries to get her daughter to marry for money, but the daughter wants to marry for love.
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Honor Among Lovers
Title: Honor Among Lovers
Character: Forbes, Butler
Released: February 28, 1931
Type: Movie
Jerry Stafford falls for his secretary, Julia Traynor, but instead she marries a shady character who causes trouble for both of them.
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Laughter
Title: Laughter
Character: Benham, Gibson's Butler
Released: September 24, 1930
Type: Movie
Zeigfeld Follies beauty Peggy marries an older man, C. Morton Gibson. Although she soon grows tired of their sedate life, she refuses the attentions of her longtime friend, the volatile sculptor Ralph Le Saint. When pianist Paul Lockridge arrives from Paris, he begs Peggy to run away with him to France, where they can share adventure and a full life -- but complications arise for Peggy when Gibson's attractive daughter visits.